He does the "as the court knows" thing and makes a statement that is not true. (Screenshot #1)
The "novel" legal issues?
"This is the first time in history anyone—let alone a President of the United States—has been charged, in the defense’s view wrongfully, with conspiracies related to a contested election."
Wait. Haven't hundreds of people been charged in connection with the J6 attack?
@Teri_Kanefield
Wow! Trump has been so amorally transactional and corrupt for so long, he apparently doesn't see the problem with being able to "find a buyer in Saudi Arabia" to pay whatever inflated price he says.
The removal statute specifically requires that the person be a federal officer AND acting under color of his or her office.
If I am acting pursuant to a federal law, that doesn't make me a federal officer.
The only reason I can see for trying to raise this argument is court is to try to establish their first prong: They want to try to establish that they were not "fake," they were alternate.
@Teri_Kanefield the one thing that can be said about Trumpism ... and this is truly Trumpism ... is that it will pressure test every seam and ambiguity in the law
As with all of the DOJ's filings, this was written for public consumption. It contains very little legalese, the law is presented in a straightforward way, and the material is, um, I guess you could say compelling.
The DOJ refers to this as a high-profile case.
Well, that's your classic understatement. I think it's safe to say that everyone in DC by now has a strong opinion about Trump.
@Teri_Kanefield At what point does this become harassment/intimidation of an officer of the court? He didn’t like the results when he went though appropriate and official legal channels (motions, appeals, etc.), so next step is personally suing the judge for doing his job? I don’t know the ethical/legal obligations that lawyers have to the courts, but I would hope that there might be consequences for tfg’s lawyers who are enabling/facilitating such a stupid lawsuit.
A FL Magistrate Judge, Bruce Reinhart, signed off on the 8/22 Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Cannon is also mentioned, but as a District Judge.
“If the case is being overseen by the same district and magistrate judges, that means the court likely considered the indictment to be 'related' to the search warrant and intentionally assigned it to those judges.”
Why two types of judges, Magistrate and District, and what’s the role of each?
@Teri_Kanefield I'm sure this is a layman question, but how does the court verify that Trump and his attorneys are following all the rules, given Trump's history and legitimate attorney-client privilege issues?
Who knows if the House crazies will even get that far, right?
I don't know if impeaching a president for something done before office is even a thing. It makes no sense.
I also don't know whether Biden will challenge a subpoena or just show up like Clinton did.
I'll also remind you that each time Trump people have challenged subpoenas in court, people were furious and accused them of "abusing" the legal system.
@Teri_Kanefield impeachment theatre is getting out of hand. I think a bipartisan group should draft an amendment that clarifies impeachment issues and procedures and create some presidential accountability that's somewhere between a censure and a full-blown impeachment. Also to deal with lame duck presidents who won't admit defeat and what do to if there is an out of office impeachment like a 6 month SOL for that.
In the motion, Trump's lawyers selectively edited sentences from case law, but if you read closely, whether she recuses is entirely discretional, which means that an appeal really has no chance.
@Teri_Kanefield I like to remind men that the only thing for which men are necessary is sperm, and that can be frozen. Women can do everything else.
Right wing men are the most useless creatures on the planet.
A panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama's latest Congressional map for not following the court's order to give Black voters equal representation.
The fun part about having my 18 year old home (after he was away for a summer job before he heads to college) is that I never know, when I walk into a room, whether he will roll his eyes at me and be a grump or say (sweetly) "Mom can you help me with this?"